Tangney Electorate Demographics (WA)

In the 2011 census the population of Tangney was 141,938 and is comprised of approximately 50.9% females and 49.1% males.

The median/average age of the population of Tangney is 38 years of age.

55.5% of people living in the electorate of Tangney were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 7.6% England, 5.1% Malaysia, 2.8% India, 2.5% Singapore, 2.2% South Africa, 2.0% New Zealand, 2.0% China , 1.7% Indonesia, 1.4% Scotland, 0.9% Sri Lanka, 0.6% Hong Kong , 0.6% Italy, 0.6% Korea, Republic of , 0.5% Ireland.

72.3% of people living in Tangney speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 5.3% Mandarin, 4.0% Language spoken at home not stated, 3.2% Cantonese, 2.4% Other, 1.5% Indonesian, 1.0% Italian, 0.8% Tamil, 0.8% Other, 0.7% Arabic.

55.4% of people are married, 31.9% have never married and 6.1% are divorced and 2.0% are separated. There are 5363 widowed people living in Tangney.

58.6% of the people living in Tangney over the age of 15 and who identify as being in the labour force are employed full time, 31.7% are working on a part time basis. Tangney has an unemployment rate of 4.2%.